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Re: Quotation Ugliness

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Date Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:48:10 +1100
Subject Re: Quotation Ugliness
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote:
> The more I think about this, the more I think I am just going to look for
> the
> string 'sudo' anywhere in the argument.  This merely will force the user to
> enter their sudo password if detected.  If it turns out to be a false
> positive,
> no harm will be done and the password will just go unused.

That sounds reasonable; imperfect, but reasonable. But what happens if
the password "goes unused"? Will it be provided on stdin to the
program? That could be VERY bad in two ways (revealing the password,
and breaking the program's expectations).

ChrisA

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Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 18:18 -0600
  Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-25 18:40 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:18 -0600
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-26 12:32 +1100
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:00 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:00 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:18 -0600
  Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-26 11:44 +1100
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:20 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-25 19:20 -0600
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-25 19:44 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:01 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:01 -0600
  Re: Quotation Ugliness Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-26 12:54 +1100
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:04 -0600
    Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 00:04 -0600
      Using a password with ‘sudo’ (was: Quotation Ugliness) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-26 18:02 +1100
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-26 18:10 +1100
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:59 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:59 -0600
      Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-26 06:56 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2014-11-26 15:45 +0200
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 01:37 +1100
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-26 08:26 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:07 +1100
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:09 +1100
            Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:36 -0600
            Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:36 -0600
              Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:48 +1100
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:55 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 11:00 -0500
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:02 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:02 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 03:13 +1100
                Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 11:16 -0500
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:54 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:54 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-11-26 16:45 +0000
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 10:54 -0600
                Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:55 -0600
              Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 10:53 -0500
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:58 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 08:58 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-11-27 02:06 +1100
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-11-26 09:23 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-11-27 07:24 +1100
      Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 09:12 -0500
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:02 -0600
        Re: Quotation Ugliness Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> - 2014-11-26 09:02 -0600
          Re: Quotation Ugliness random832@fastmail.us - 2014-11-26 10:16 -0500

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